Day and night tour

Chapter 209 Big Mouth Monster Baby
"I'm not a temple owner, I'm a businessman."

Zhou Xuan reiterated his point of view.

Doing some business, making some money from tattoos, and increasing your own popularity is already a pretty good business. If you become the abbot of a temple, you will be the boss of the City God and will have a lot of things to take care of.

I don’t have the time for that.

Qingfeng, Zhang Yifeng and others looked at Zhou Xuan and realized that he was not "pretending to refuse" but really did not want to be the abbot. They didn't know what to say for a moment.

Originally they had polished their words of "welcoming Zhou Xuan to become the new abbot", but the other party's "I don't want to be the abbot" ruined their preparations.

The two had no choice but to look to Li Chengfeng for help.

Li Chengfeng couldn't change Zhou Xuan's mind, so he said, "As for the matter of taking on the position of abbot, you should give the young master some time to adapt. Today's emergency meeting is to discuss how to hunt down Hungry, so let's get down to business first."

The meeting was chaired by Lao Li. After he spoke, everyone turned the topic to hunger.

Zhou Xuan sat on Li Chengfeng's left, which was the position of the former temple master.

"There have been more and more murders caused by hunger recently, more than four a day, and they are becoming more and more brutal. Recently, at No. 79 Jiaofangju Street, a newborn baby ate his mother, father, grandfather, and midwife. The impact of this incident is very bad..."

Li Chengfeng was speaking with saliva flying and passion, but Zhou Xuan shook his head and spoke out to stop Old Li from speaking.

"Wait a moment."

"Young sir, do you have any instructions?" When Li Chengfeng saw that Zhou Xuan was about to express his opinion, he was not annoyed at all. He was so happy that he couldn't contain himself.

Anyway, as for the investigation into the hunger, up to now, neither the City God nor Gu Lao have any clues.

It's not that they are incompetent, but the murders caused by hunger are like the plague, there are no signs at all, maybe it's just a tragedy in someone's house,
Mingjiang Prefecture has a population of several million. In such a large population, a few "cannibalism tragedies" appear almost randomly, just like a meat worm in a rice jar. How to prevent it? It is impossible to prevent it.

Now that Zhou Xuan wants to give his opinions, everyone is of course all ears.

"It's not really an instruction, but... my hunger has become stronger."

Zhou Xuan gave his own judgment.

Li Chengfeng asked: "Why do you say that, young master?"

"All the major newspapers in Mingjiang Prefecture have been reporting on murders caused by hunger. When hunger first started, my fifth senior brother and I witnessed it. We even witnessed a whole family being murdered by hunger."

Judging from the apparent situation, Zhou Xuan could be regarded as the first person in Mingjiang Prefecture to discover hunger.

The timing of the discovery was very coincidental. It was a corpse possessed by "hunger" and was found during an autopsy at Zhoujia Jingyi Shop.

At that time, Lu Mingkun also went to the home of the corpse, and he almost fell victim to "hunger".

"I have always had the habit of reading newspapers. Hunger has committed many murders of entire families, but the murderers who carried out the murders were able to kill the rest of the people as a matter of course."

"Guan... Young sir, I don't quite understand what you mean."

Qingfeng rubbed his forehead, wanting Zhou Xuan to explain more clearly.

"The murderers of those murders were all adults. They were bewitched by hunger and lost their minds. In addition, they were strong and capable of killing, so killing was justified."

Zhou Xuan added: "However, as Lao Li just said, a recent murder case involved a newborn baby who had no teeth yet ate an entire family. This incident itself is irrational.

Just imagine, if a baby is simply bewitched by hunger, it will definitely not be able to commit a murder. Therefore, the role of hunger in this murder is not just bewitching!
Maybe it did something else to give the baby the ability to wipe out the whole family.

So I say, be hungry, be strong.”

Li Chengfeng, Qingfeng and others were very convinced when they heard this. Zhou Xuan had a keen sense of case.

The rhythm of the situation involuntarily moved towards Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan's speech also became more forceful, and he ordered: "So... don't hold this meeting for now, it's a waste of time. Next, you do two things.
First of all, you have to tell me what happened to the baby who ate the whole family. Is he alive or dead? If he is alive, take me to see him. If he is dead, where is his body? I want to see it, too.

The second thing is, take me to No. 79, the Textile Bureau. I want to go to the crime scene."

After hearing this, Li Chengfeng immediately responded, "Young sir, after the baby ate the whole family, he went around looking for food. The City God arrived just in time and executed him with an ink thread."

"What about the body?"

"In the City God Hall." Qingfeng said.

"Then let's go to the City God's Hall first, and then to the crime scene."

Zhou Xuan stood up and Qingfeng led the way naturally.

……

When the City God encounters some strange creatures, such as old zombies and goblins, he will kill them and bring the corpse back to the corpse display area in the City God Hall.

Once the identity is confirmed and the case is closed, the body will be handed over to the "Weird Biology Research Institute" of Huifeng Medical College for research by Gu Lao.

Zhou Xuan and his group appeared in front of the iron gate where the body was found.

There is a Taoist talisman pasted on the door, and the city god is guarding the door.

Qingfeng opened the door, made a "please" gesture, and led Zhou Xuan into the house.

There were dozens of wooden beds where the bodies were laid. Zhou Xuan scanned the beds one by one and turned back to ask Qing Feng, "Where is the body?"

"Just..." Qingfeng raised his eyes and found that all the wooden beds were empty. He immediately shouted outside the door: "Where is the baby..."

Before he could finish his words, Zhou Xuan raised his hand to stop him and asked again: "Are you feeling hungry?"

"Hungry? It seems like I had a dream about... hunger?" Qingfeng reacted.

Li Chengfeng, Zhang Yifeng and the other five night watchmen, after Zhou Xuan's reminder, also realized that they were feeling "hungry".

Zhou Xuan already had experience with this kind of thing. When he was in the forbidden tower of Qiye Temple, the monk Zhujiu had taught him that the descendants of gods and strange ghosts were born with physical dreams.

This kind of dream is similar to some kind of forbidden area. It ignores incense and once you step into the dream, it can pollute people's consciousness and mind.

People with high incense might have stronger resistance, and they could forcibly escape from this dream and save their lives while their mind is not completely controlled.

But if you are stubborn and refuse to leave, your mind will be constantly attacked until it is completely controlled.

Of course, the speed of the invasion also depends on the level of the gods and the descendants of the aliens.

The Buddhist disciple "Six Desires" in the Qiye Temple is the offspring of the great Buddhas "Seven Leaves Venerable" and "Zhaxing". The incense of these two has reached the sky, so the dreams of "Six Desires" are naturally very strong.

Siming, who was in a good position, was quickly caught after entering the tower.

The baby who disappeared in the morgue was obviously not powerful enough. Although the "hunger dream" he created had the characteristics of a physical dream, its polluting ability was not very strong. Zhou Xuan had to take the initiative to ask about it before Li Chengfeng and others could feel it.

"The baby's body is not gone, but we are in a dream, a dream woven by the baby."

Zhou Xuan grabbed the "Bifang Mask" from his waist, put it on his face, and then slipped the wake-up stick out of his sleeve and tapped it lightly.
"Snapped."

The storyteller’s ninth level of skill—the Lord of Dreams.

Through this means, Zhou Xuan himself became a dream.

The dream he envisioned was a clean and bright room.

He was in his dream, observing.

The physical dreams of gods and alien descendants are constantly invading those who mistakenly enter the dreams, and their dreams will collide with Zhou Xuan's dreams.

And during the collision, Zhou Xuan could clearly see the shape of his offspring.

"boom!"

Zhou Xuan faintly heard the sound of nails being hammered.

He identified the direction of the sound, turned his head and saw a soft tongue-like object on the window of the house. After tensing its body, it suddenly released and slammed into the window.

"This offspring is so small?"

Zhou Xuan could still remember that the Buddhist disciple in the Qiye Temple was so huge that when he hit his dream, it made a loud bang, which was far beyond the reach of this little tongue.

"What on earth is this baby's corpse? To say he is the offspring of God is too weak. To say he is not the offspring of God is too weak. How can he dream of a physical body?"

Zhou Xuan was a little confused, but he didn't care about it for the time being and just subdued the other party first.

"Dream into dream."

He once again used the storyteller's eighth level of skill, channeling his perception into the soft substance of his tongue.

"You dream of delicious food, and you can't help but eat it with relish. You eat so much that your body keeps swaying."

"Snapped!"

After imagining a dream for the tongue-shaped object, Zhou Xuan hit the wake-up stick again, causing the other party to dream according to his imagination.

At the same time, Zhou Xuan returned to reality and saw the body of a baby on the first bed in the morgue.

"Hey, the baby's corpse appeared again?" Zhang Yifeng rubbed his eyes.

"There is something in the baby's body that can produce dreams. You have been caught in his dream, and what you see is not reality, so naturally you cannot find the baby's body.

Now that thing is under my control, it can't have dreams. What you see now is the real scene in the morgue, and naturally you can see the baby's body again."

As Zhou Xuan spoke, he walked to the baby's body and examined it carefully.

There was a faint beating in the baby's abdomen, and there was a lump of flesh about the size of a finger that appeared and disappeared from time to time.

"That thing that can give rise to dreams is hidden here."

The thing in the baby's body that can produce dreams has now been hit by the "food dream" conceived by Zhou Xuan - you dream of delicious food, and you can't help but eat it with relish, eating very happily, and your body keeps swaying.

As soon as it swayed, Zhou Xuan found its trail.
After Zhou Xuan took off the "Bifang Mask", he activated the bone teeth.

The white bone teeth dug into the baby's body's abdomen and a soft tongue was pulled out.

Qingfeng, who was standing by, wrapped the Chenghuang ink thread around his right hand to prevent himself from being contaminated, and then pinched the "tongue" with two fingers.

He looked at it carefully and said, "Is this hunger?"

"No." Zhou Xuan said, "We have no idea what it is. We need to go to the crime scene to check it out."

After finishing his speech, Zhou Xuan patted Qing Feng on the chest and said, "Let's go to the scene."

"What about this tongue?"

"A piece of soft flesh that can only dream and has no self-awareness. It is useless in solving the case, but it is very dangerous. Kill it directly to prevent it from causing any trouble."

After Zhou Xuan finished speaking, Li Chengfeng lit a Dao Flame and burned the tongue to ashes. At the same time, he also burned out a dozen tooth-like objects in the tongue.

"Is this tooth the bone of this thing?" To be cautious, Zhou Xuan asked Qingfeng: "Is there any forbidden weapon?"

"Have."

The most famous things in the City God Hall are the magical instruments and forbidden weapons, and each disciple carries several of them.

"Keep the burnt ashes and teeth away. Again, don't let anything go wrong."

After Zhou Xuan finished his exhortation, Qingfeng took out a white bone bottle from his waist.

The bone bottle is not big and can be held in one hand. There are strange inscriptions engraved on the body of the bottle.

Qingfeng carefully placed the tongue ashes and teeth into the bone bottle.

The inscription on the bone bottle flashed with golden luster, completing the seal.

……

No. 79 Jiaofangju was a silver shop with a sign that read "Ming Ji Silver Shop".

The shop door was sealed.

Li Chengfeng said to Zhou Xuan: "Young Master, the murder of the baby eating a human happened this morning."

"Yes." Zhou Xuan opened the seal and instructed: "When I am looking for inspiration, I like to take a nap and don't like to be disturbed. You wait for me outside the door and no one is allowed to come in."

Now that he was at the scene, Zhou Xuan would use the Cleansing Wrongs Talisman to enter the gap in time and space, go back to the time of the crime, and see how that tongue thing controlled a newborn baby to commit a murder.

Zhou Xuan naturally didn't want anyone to find out the secret when it came to the Wake Up to Wrongs Scroll. Fortunately, Li Chengfeng was definitely one of his own. With him around, Qingfeng and the other night watchmen would be stopped by him if they wanted to enter the house.

"Don't worry, young sir, no one will disturb you." Li Chengfeng responded.

Zhou Xuan nodded, took the lantern from Zhang Yifeng, opened the door and went into the house, then closed the door again.

He started checking in the shop first.

This shop has three floors, and the first floor is used for silver business.

There are rooms on the second and third floors. The smell of blood is the strongest on the third floor. Apparently, the tragedy of cannibalism of babies happened here.

Zhou Xuan took out the Wake Up Wrongs Scroll, unscrewed the pen cap, and wrote on the scroll: Mingjiang Prefecture, Mingji Silver Shop, September 9, 7:9,
After writing down the time, a white light appeared in front of Zhou Xuan's eyes, and he went back in time.

Zhou Xuan was on the third floor and saw blood all over the floor, but no corpse or baby.

"At 9 o'clock in the morning, the baby had already committed a murder, and we have to go back in time."

Li Chengfeng and his friends only knew that the bloody incident happened in the morning, but they had no idea how serious it was.

Zhou Xuan could only try hour by hour, trying to get back to the exact time of the crime.

He walked to the edge of the space-time gap, shattered the space, returned to reality, then took out the book of clearing injustices and wrote down - Mingjiang Mansion, Mingji Silver Shop, September 9, 7 o'clock.

Time is written, white light appears,
The time Zhou Xuan went back to was one hour earlier than the first time.

This time, no bloodshed happened.

Zhou Xuan stood at the door of the bedroom on the third floor. He also saw a young man and an old man standing at the door.

"Dad, Aunt Li has been in there for so long, why hasn't she finished yet?"

"Be patient. Why rush to have a baby?"

The old man is the baby's grandfather, and the young man is the baby's father.

Zhou Xuan walked into the bedroom.

What appears in the gap between time and space is not the real reality, but the image at that time.

Zhou Xuan walked through the closed bedroom door unhindered and saw the scene in the room.

Aunt Li was delivering a baby to the mother, but the baby had not yet been born.

Zhou Xuan was waiting in the house.

About ten minutes later, with a burst of crying, Aunt Li cut the umbilical cord, tied a knot, and held up a bloody baby in her hands.

"It's born, it's born, it's a big fat boy."

Aunt Li rushed outside the door to announce the good news.

"Once I have cleaned up the baby and his mother, I will bring him out to show you. Please wait a little longer."

Aunt Li is an old midwife, and you can tell by her skilled technique.

She held the baby in one hand and poured boiling water from the thermos into the copper basin with the other.

The copper basin was filled with one third of cold water in advance, and when the boiling water was poured in, the water temperature soon became milder.

She took a towel, dipped it in water, and washed the blood off the baby's body. She wrapped the baby in the swaddling clothes she had prepared in advance, placed the baby next to the woman in labor, then wrung out the towel and helped clean the woman's body.

The process of giving birth was too difficult and the mother was exhausted. She just glanced at the newborn baby and fell asleep happily. Aunt Li focused on cleaning.

Neither of them noticed that the baby in the cradle moved.

The baby quietly crawled out of the swaddling cloth, reached his hand into his abdomen, and dug hard, and a "tongue" was exposed from his stomach.

After twisting the tongue twice, a hole appeared, and teeth fell out one after another.

The baby picked up the tooth and put it into his tender little mouth. After the first tooth was put in, his mouth became a little bigger and black veins appeared on his body.

When he stuffed seven or eight teeth in, the mouth became a huge mouth that almost covered half of his face.

At this time, Aunt Li had finally finished the final cleaning for the woman in labor. She raised her head and was about to wipe the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve. At this moment, she saw the "big-mouthed strange baby". She jumped with fright and instinctively rushed out the door.

After running for several steps, she finally remembered to shout,

"It's incredible. The baby born is..."

Before she could finish her words, the baby jumped behind her, opened its huge mouth, and bit the back of her neck.

With just one bite, he almost bit off Aunt Li's neck, and her entire head was tied to the skin in front of her neck and drooped in front of her chest.

"Oh!"

Aunt Li's body fell down, and the big-mouthed baby jumped onto the bed and bit the woman's neck.

At this time, the door opened. The father and grandfather, who had just heard Aunt Li's scream, knew that something had happened in the house, but they didn't know what it was, so they pushed the door open.

As soon as they entered, they were shocked by the horrific scene in the house.

The big-mouthed monster baby laughed at the two of them with a creepy laugh...

Naturally, my father and grandfather also had their necks bitten off, and then their bodies were eaten clean.

After committing the murder, the baby pulled out all the teeth in his mouth one by one and put them into his tongue in the pit of his stomach. His body returned to the appearance of a normal baby and he climbed down the stairs...

Zhou Xuan once again shattered the gap in time and space and returned to reality.

“So this is how babies kill people.”

Sure enough, this time the "hunger" murder was no longer simply relying on "hunger dreams" to kill people.

That tongue actually transformed a newborn baby into a monster.

A monster with a huge mouth and great strength.

"But how did that tongue appear on the baby?"

"It wasn't too long ago that hunger first appeared in Mingjiang Prefecture. This baby couldn't have been born a monster. The mother must have encountered something recently..."

Since it was a strange experience, the physical condition of the mother must have changed greatly before and after the strange experience.

Thinking of this,

Zhou Xuan decided to continue to go back in time through the Cleansing Wrongs Sutra to find the time when the abnormality occurred to the mother.

This time, he traced back in units of "days".

连续回溯到9月6日、9月5日、9月4日，
During these three days, the woman would hide some raw meat in the bedroom every day. When no one was in the room, she would chew and eat the raw meat until her face was covered in blood.

But on September 9, the mother did not eat any raw meat, and did not encounter any strange things that day.

Zhou Xuan confirmed that the pregnant woman had a strange experience on September 9.

After confirming the date, Zhou Xuan used "hours" to trace back the time. The overall process was roughly the same as checking surveillance videos in his previous life.

Finally, as Zhou Xuan went back in time again and again, he saw the strange scene that the woman in labor encountered at five o'clock in the afternoon on September 9.

"Honey, look what I brought back."

"Hey, where did you get a pig's foot?"

"The pastor gave it to me. I went to church with Fatty Yu today. The pastor heard that you were about to give birth, so he gave me a pig's trotter to nourish your body."

"This pig's trotter is really fat. I really want to eat it."

"If you want to eat, I'll cook it for you now."

The woman who had just given birth was very craving for the pig's trotters her husband brought back, so she urged him to cook them.

But Zhou Xuan saw clearly that what her husband was holding was not a pig's foot, but a bloody, bright red, twisting tongue.

The pregnant woman ate the "tongue", and the "tongue" successfully parasitized the baby in her belly.

"This tongue is covered in blood, it looks like it was cut off not long ago." Zhou Xuan held up his chin and said, "The tongue was given by the pastor..."

Zhou Xuan continued to deduce.

The tongue has the "dream of flesh" property of the descendants of gods, but the strength is not high.

"Perhaps, the priest is Hunger... The tongue was cut from the priest. It is only a part of Hunger. Because it is only a part, it is not that strong."

Thinking of this,

Zhou Xuan immediately returned to reality, went downstairs and opened the door.

Li Chengfeng saw Zhou Xuan coming out and asked quickly, "Young Master, what did you gain?"

"Go around this street and look for a person named Fat Yu. Find out which church this Fat Yu often goes to worship."

There was one extremely important piece of information in the conversation between the woman in labor and her husband - when he went to church with Fatty Yu, the pastor gave him a tongue.

Once we find this Fat Yu, we can find where the church is and naturally find the pastor.

"We are going to check every household now. We must find out who Fatty Yu is."

Zhou Xuan gave the order, and Li Chengfeng immediately arranged Qingfeng and the night watchman to search for "Fat Yu". They searched all night long on Jiaofangju Street, but no one knew who Fat Yu was.

Fortunately, there is always a way out. Finally, Zhou Xuan and his group got the information about "Fat Yu" from the owner of a breakfast shop.

"The fat Yu you are talking about is called Yu Dexing. He sells fish on the street every day and doesn't live on this street."

"Then where does he live?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"I don't know where he lives." The breakfast shop owner said, "These fishmongers and vegetable vendors all live in the countryside. Who knows where he lives? Why are you asking about him?"

"Do you know what he looks like?" Zhou Xuan asked the boss.

"Square face, shaved head, and fat body."

As the boss spoke, Zhang Yifeng took out a pen and paper and started drawing.

The City God often handles cases, and drawing portraits is a basic skill for him.

While Zhang Yifeng was painting, the boss was giving him instructions. After half an hour, the portrait was finally completed.

"Look, does it look like it?" Zhang Yifeng handed the painting to the boss.

After taking a closer look, the boss said, "Why do you have a mole on your neck? Yu Dexing has no mole on his neck."

"That's not a mole. It's the ink that came out of the tip of the pen when I raised the pen just now."

Zhang Yifeng said unhappily.

"That's quite similar."

The boss returned the portrait to Zhang Yifeng.

Before Zhang Yifeng could reach out his hand, Zhou Xuan took the painting first. Without even looking at it, he tore it in half with his hands.

"Young sir, you..." Zhang Yifeng felt a little distressed. After all, he had been painting for half an hour.

Zhou Xuan threw away the broken painting and said, "If you look for it based on this painting, you will never find Fatty Yu...right, boss?"

The boss's face looked gloomy.

"Looking at your tone just now, you're not that familiar with Fatty Yu. It's not strange that you remember what he looks like, but it's strange that you even remember whether he has a mole on his neck so clearly... So strange that I think you are Fatty Yu!"

Zhou Xuanyao poked the breakfast shop owner between the eyebrows and shouted to the night watchman, "Fork it up!"

ps: I updated a big chapter, happy new year my good brothers.

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